After the German Empire lost the First World War and the Kaiser abdicated, the newly established Weimar Republic lingered in ...

In her latest book, Associate Professor of German Jill Smith explains her frustration at a tendency to oversimplify a key period of twentieth-century European history—and it’s all down to a 1970s ...

WARSAW — Much depends on with whom and how Friedrich Merz will govern in Europe. But we know for sure that a weak Germany will mean a weak European Union. And that is exactly what Vladimir Putin and ...

For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” ...

The Weimar Republic was a hotbed of cultural experimentation. A new history argues that its demise was not inevitable. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the editor of Granta. When you purchase an ...

Destitute Germans on the streets of Berlin, 1919 - Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images If you want to know where our polarised, gullible, narcissistic world might end up, I advise you to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. Recent MinnPost articles have eloquently sounded the alarm regarding one of ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany” and Frank McDonough’s “The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933” examine the era through different lenses. But both emphasize Germany’s ...

Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world events by combining classical geopolitical analysis with an understanding ...

Join author Thomas Blubacher and scholars Cynthia Porter and Anjeana Hans for a discussion of the broader context of Blubacher's recently translated book "Weimar Under the Palms" The story of the ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. In the final ...